SaSR-Net: Source-Aware Semantic Representation Network for Enhancing Audio-Visual Question Answering

Tianyu Yang, Yiyang Nan, Lisen Dai, Zhenwen Liang, Yapeng Tian, Xiangliang Zhang


Abstract
Audio-Visual Question Answering (AVQA) is a challenging task that involves answering questions based on both auditory and visual information in videos. A significant challenge is interpreting complex multi-modal scenes, which include both visual objects and sound sources, and connecting them to the given question. In this paper, we introduce the Source-aware Semantic Representation Network (SaSR-Net), a novel model designed for AVQA. SaSR-Net utilizes source-wise learnable tokens to efficiently capture and align audio-visual elements with the corresponding question. It streamlines the fusion of audio and visual information using spatial and temporal attention mechanisms to identify answers in multi-modal scenes. Extensive experiments on the Music-AVQA and AVQA-Yang datasets show that SaSR-Net outperforms state-of-the-art AVQA methods. We will release our source code and pre-trained models.
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2024.findings-emnlp.933
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Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024
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November
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2024
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Miami, Florida, USA
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Yaser Al-Onaizan, Mohit Bansal, Yun-Nung Chen
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Tianyu Yang, Yiyang Nan, Lisen Dai, Zhenwen Liang, Yapeng Tian, and Xiangliang Zhang. 2024. SaSR-Net: Source-Aware Semantic Representation Network for Enhancing Audio-Visual Question Answering. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2024, pages 15894–15904, Miami, Florida, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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SaSR-Net: Source-Aware Semantic Representation Network for Enhancing Audio-Visual Question Answering (Yang et al., Findings 2024)
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